It's like people have never seen a character arc and how tropes work
Honestly it amazes me that people are being like “oh Hans was such a ladies man in KCD, him being with Henry makes no sense.” LIKE did you even play the first game?? Hans is not that good at talking to women if he’s not actively paying for sex? Plus I think it’s clear he’s over compensating. He’s so arrogant and cocky around women, trying to boast etc. But then during the scene where he and Henry kiss he’s the complete opposite, even when Henry reciprocates. It feels genuine and tender? The complete opposite of how he typically acts around women? Also this isn’t meant to say Hans isn’t attracted to women BUT I just think throughout KCD1 he’s bored and lonely, and sex and drinking are obviously his only vices? Like his cockiness is so clearly a front
like, okay, i'm sure this scene has been talked about and dissected to pieces already in this fandom but. BUT. i need to put my two cents in or i will explode.
so, your lord and best friend has just admitted to you that if you die, he will be so beside himself with grief that he might just die too.
the game then gives you THIS option in response.
and you, the player, know how video games work. you know this is the press x for romance button. you expect henry to admit his feelings—a culmination of all the hints he's dropped from the heart options we've chosen before—and kiss him as soon as the button's been pressed.
except henry doesn't kiss hans.
instead, henry places his hand on hans' hand. it's the first moment of physical contact between them in the whole scene...but it's not a kiss. it's gentle. it's intimate. it's tiptoeing the line between comforting a friend and something more...
...but henry leaves it at that. and he gets up and goes to leave.
and in that moment of panic. in that split second of 'this might be the last time i'll ever see you again, please don't go' — it's hans that kisses henry.
and it's henry who pushes hans away.
this is—for all intents and purposes—the opposite of what we, the player, chose.
and to add insult to injury, henry looks conflicted.
he looks SO conflicted that hans believes he's fucked up royally.
that he has completely tarnished their final moments together by acting on impulse—by giving into temptation and desperation and feelings he can't even put into his own words—and henry must be disgusted by him.
and hans believes this because he watches henry turn his back to him. refusing to look at him. and head for the door.
but henry stops before he opens it. and i keep thinking back to the heart option we chose.
the player is not making the choice for henry to kiss hans. we are not forcing his hand.
the player is reminding henry what he's been telling himself throughout the entire game.
don't run away, henry.
kiss him. kiss him back.
so henry does.
getting dressed!
I did it. Hansry brought something in me back to life. I feel like I've been waiting for this ship for a VERY long time. The original images are HUGE I hope Tumblr doesn't eat the quality.
Brothers in arms
Mandatory mutt reblog
Good Boy!
Not the only ones, here in Chile exist the biggest community of palestinians outside the middle east, the majority of them escaped when at the end of the XIX century had to leave since they were being pushed to fight for the ottoman empire, the majority of them where christians. Palestinians no matter when or what their background is HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FORCED TO ESCAPE NO MATTER THE TIME PERIOD.
This weekend about 2 billion people will celebrate Christmas across the world, and the birth of their religion in Palestine. Today the only remaining 700 Christians, the descendants of the first followers of Christ, are being wiped out in Gaza and their churches bombed to pieces. [@/ Hanine09 on X. 12/23/23.]
Coming out to the ghost of your parents has to be a new level of gayness that i have never witnessed before
If you choose settle down,then Henry can come out to his parents at the end and you could see Martin's shocked face.
(This only happens when you're romancing Hans)
I swear this face he makes...
i'm so sorry i had to
Just liking what i see or care about 😖 (This account is dark and full of terrors)
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